Security is our 1st priority.

Posted on 6th June 2016

What better way to start the summer than with a brand new release of PatrolServer, we’ve very proud to announce version 1.1.0 is now available to all of you.

No matter how you use PatrolServer, whether it’s the API, or our dashboard and scanner, you’re going to love this new version. We integrated the most requested features, polished both the front and back-end and made the entire experience a whole lot faster. We put a strong focus on developers past months, keep on reading for more exciting news. You’ll love this as much as we do, for sure!

Filtering

Technically speaking, filtering cards is not a new feature, it has been enabled for most accounts for the past few months. Today, the feature is officially out of beta phase. We’ve been tweaking the ability to filter cards under the hood, as well as restoring cards is now possible by clicking the “restore” button. Below is a small demonstration on how you can filter out unwanted cards.

Posted on 4th January 2016

Today we’re releasing the Ignore functionality for your solution cards. That means you can take full control over what type of solutions you’d like to see. Just as importantly, you can now report false positives where needed.

Posted on 17th December 2015

On Monday, Joomla! released updates and hotfixes for all their versions. It had to patch a zero-day exploit that was already being used in the wild.Initial analysis by Sucuri, Metasploit and Reddit suggested it had something to do with the storage of the unsanitized User-Agent string into the session data. This session data was stored into an custom Joomla database (utf8_general_ci) and was executed as it was a close handler of the database. We will guide you through the exploit and explain how you can be secure by using standard security measures.

We’ve developed a PoC which injects a malicious payload executing phpinfo.

Posted on 15th October 2015

PatrolServer webhooks are officially available to all our users. As of today, developers are able to integrate PatrolServer within all their favourite applications. So next to polling the results of our scans with our API, we introduce a push mechanism to get information when something has changed.

What are webhooks?

Webhooks are real time events to alert you whenever an event occurs in PatrolServer. For example, your server finished scanning and has new issues. A webhook will be triggered and as a developer, you can now interact based on this new information.

The webhooks are HTTP POST requests, delivered to a destination URL entered in the API settings page. Each time a new event occurs, we’ll perform this action on the URL(s) of your choice.

Let’s take the following use case: new composer package issues have been found on your server. You intercept this with our webhook and automatically run thecomposer update command. Or, what if you’d like to send a message to Slack when your server software suddenly became outdated.

Posted on 30th September 2015

Today we’re very happy to announce that from now on, we’ll support npm modules.

We are following the Node.js ecosphere closeby. It is not only a thriving community, but the growth since 2009 has been phenomincal. With npm as main package manager, it is a easy as npm install grunt to install something as awesome as grunt.

Also keeping it secure or updated isn’t hard. Just run npm outdated and you magically see all outdated packages. When the correct semver versions are used, a npm update later, you are updated and secure.

Posted on 23rd September 2015

Great news for all developers out there.

At PatrolServer, it is our mission to make sure no outdated server exists. As of today, we officially open our developers API to everyone who has an account on our service. Current users on free plans are also able to integrate with our API, in short: everyone can integrate with the magical experience of PatrolServer.

Create your own scanning tool like the one we published on Github, and take full control.

Let creativity go crazy.

What with the future?

Look, we believe APIs will become more dynamic and task-oriented in the future. It makes sense to use data from others just because they’re so good at that particular field. Same as us, PatrolServer, strives to be the best at detecting outdated software and informing users about it.

The first major enhancement we got planned is the support of webhooks. Imagine a seamless integration with services like IFTTT, how cool would that be? Very.

We’re very thrilled to see what others will do with our API. Go ahead, it’s yours!

Posted on 10th September 2015

Whenever we detect outdated and/or unsupported software on your setup, we provide solutions. These solutions come in the form of a “card”, these so-called solution cards then lead you to a guide through the “Let’s fix it” button. A quick example of a solution card that will pop up when your PHP installation is outdated, and requires an update to a newer version:

Imagine the following situation: You got a server running two Drupal instances, both are outdated and will be detected by the system. Our system then generates those solution cards, but what happens next was not something that kept us busy during the first version of PatrolServer development.

Until now, we have fully rewritten our solutions engine from scratch. The current engine is not only faster, but is written with a dynamic way of thinking (think of a certain “what if”, and we’ll be able to generate a solutions card without digging up the current code and making changes).

Posted on 31st August 2015

At PatrolServer, we aim for continued innovation. Today I’m pleased to announce that, with the release of PatrolServer 1.0.2, we’re a step closer to our goal. No server should be left with outdated software.

Past month has been incredible for us here at PatrolServer. We’re a little over one month in public beta, and the response from you all has been overwhelming! As most have noticed, we took the time to listen to you all and implemented the most requested features. We enjoyed all of your participation and feedback! Keep it coming. Together, we can make PatrolServer even greater.

Posted on 25th August 2015

The Web Summit conference in Dublin is one of the leading European startup conferences. Each year, they select various startups to participate in their Alpha Program as exhibitioners. The great news is, we’re select to join their program!

From 3 to 5 November 2015, we will be rocking Dublin! Come and say “Hi” to our awesome team!

Posted on 28th July 2015

Finding a new hosting company for your site is challenging. I mostly use DigitalOcean, therefore I have to take care of my own security. But when third parties ask for a good hosting for their e.g. PHP/Drupal/Wordpress site, I choke. I have to compare pricing, packages, performance and when I tangled all that, I have to check if they are secure. (I don’t want their database on the street or a defaced website).

On my last hunt to find a decent hosting provider, I got fed up. There are so many providers and when checking their software, you sometimes see that their front page has outdated PHP, as in 5.3 old. EOL for 11 months. That really bothers me. How can I rely on their security when their frontpage isn’t even up-to-date.

To warn future customers, I compiled a shame list including all hosting providers having 2 or more outdated software. Outdated, in this case, means being on an unsupported branch. I didn’t count software that are on a supported branch but are not the newest release.